Science & Technology for Children

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Beyond the Solar System by Bertha Morris Parker - Row, Peterson and company , 1941Studying the distant suns is a great strain on the imagination. If you are to get a true picture of the stars, you will have to imagine temperatures so high that the temperature in the center of a furnace fire would be cool beside them.(1640 views)Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants by Eleanor Spicer Rice - Your Wild Life , 2013Dr. Eleanor is an entomologist with a knack for telling good stories, especially about the secret lives of her favorite insects: the ANTS! In this new guide, Dr. Eleanor delights readers young and old with tales of our tiny insect neighbors.(6544 views)The Animal World, A Book of Natural History by Theodore Wood - The University Society , 1909This volume is a sketch of the animal life of the whole world. The author has so skilfully selected his examples to illustrate both the natural groups and the faunas, that his work forms a most commendable plan for the study of natural history.(5385 views)

The Travels of Birds by Frank M. Chapman - D Appleton & Company , 1916Birds are the greatest travelers in the world. The bird traveler asks help from no one. He has no use for locomotives, automobiles or steamships. He carries no chart and no compass, and he can go to some parts of the world still unknown to man.(5019 views)Rick Brant's Science Projects by John Blaine - Applewood Books , 2005A non-fiction companion volume to the collectible Rick Brant Science-Adventure Series. This reprint includes easy-to-read chapters about codes and ciphers, slingshots and archery, microscopes and radios, tricks and games, and scientific experiments.(6084 views)Birds Every Child Should Know by Neltje Blanchan - Grosset & Dunlap , 1907Nature, the best teacher of us all, trains the child's eyes through study of the birds to quickness and precision, which are the requisites for all observation in every field of knowledge. This book introduces children to the world of birds.(6800 views)Machines at Work by Mary Elting - Harvey House , 1962People have always been able to work and build wonderful things, using just their muscles. And they can do a very great deal more when they use their brains, too. They can invent machines to make work thousands of times easier and faster.(6392 views)Trains at Work by Mary Elting - Garden City Books , 1953Sam is the fireman on a big freight locomotive. When Sam was a little boy, he listened to his father and grandfather talking railroad talk. They used all kinds of words that he didn't understand. They had wonderful nicknames for each other.(5384 views)The First Book of Trees by Maribelle Cormack - Watts , 1951America is a land of trees. They grow almost everywhere in our country. Most of us see them so often that we sometimes forget how important they are. You can think of many things that we wouldn't have if there were no trees.(6336 views)A Gallery of Dinosaurs and Other Early Reptiles by David Peters - Random House Value Publishing , 1991The presentation of the creatures is broader than many dinosaur books for children, including one hundred dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles of all sizes. The illustrations here portray the dinosaurs to scale in relation to one another.(7051 views)Giants of Land, Sea and Air, Past and Present by David Peters - Random House , 1986A superbly illustrated book of the biggest animals, both living and extinct, that have inhabited the world. The animals are drawn to scale, as are the humans included in each picture to show proportion. This makes any number of comparisons possible.(6859 views)The Fairy Tales Of Science: A Book For Youth by John Cargill Brough - Griffith and Farran , 1912To place before the youthful student a compact and concise compendium of the leading and most universally important branches of Science has been my principal object in the preparation of this little volume. Fanciful sketches illustrate these pages.(6820 views)Big Book of Fun Science Experiments - Wikibooks , 2010This book is about science experiments that you can do in the home and experiments that you can nag your teacher to do in school. Featured experiments: Slime recipes; Red cabbage indicator; Pinhole Camera; Raisin Dance; and much more.(12964 views)Big Cats - Wikibooks , 2005A free children's book from the Wikibooks community. Wild cats are some of Earth's grandest treasures, and their stories excite the imagination of kids of all ages. Wikijunior Big Cats helps to explore this fascinating family.(10103 views)